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If you need to link two micros you need a Bus…. But which one ?


USB tutorial

A short introduction to using USB in Embedded systems

Rating: 6

CAN Tutorial

A short introduction to CAN

Rating: 6

Fieldbus & Industrial Networks Protocols Summary List - Links page)

Although the page is dedicated to Field bus, the links page has pointers to information on almost all busses, links and protocols

Rating: 5

RS232 Tutorial

Good tutorial on the specification and use of the RS232 link method

Rating: 4

PCI (Technical)

A site giving the physical and electrical specifications of the PCI bus

Rating: 4

ISA (Technical)

A site giving the physical and electrical specifications of the ISA bus

Rating: 4

Philips I2C Overview

An application note describing the I2C bus in comparison with other types of bus

Rating: 4

Introduction To I2C

An online presentation (Microsoft Powerpoint) of the I2C bus

Rating: 4

LIN-subbus.org

Local Interconnect Network Website.

Rating: 4

Wiring Fieldbus

A tutorial on how to setup a Fieldbus network

Rating: 4

PCMCIA homepage

The PCMCIA and now also CardBus standards authority

Rating: 4

SMBus

System Management bus …. An Intel spec used on portable and hand held devices

Rating: 4

Interfacebus.com

Useful Charts comparing bus speeds

Rating: 4

Bitbus.org

Site of the Bitbus European User Group, with details on bitbus specifications and products available.

Rating: 4

CIA - Can In Automation

A site which explains the CAN bus system and other derivatives

Rating: 4

IRDA.org

The Official Infra-Red Devices Association homepage

Rating: 4

Bosch CAN website

Bosch originally defined CAN and this is their official CAN website.

Rating: 4

The PC Technology Guide

A guide about various parts of a PC, including the PCI bus

Rating: 4

Cebus.org

Home page of the Cebus user group with info on the most recent CEBus and Home Plug & Play products.

Rating: 4

Leeroys Engineering Website

A page listing many computer, processor, IC and cable buses.

Rating: 4

EIBA

Homepage for the European Installation Bus

Rating: 4

Smart Distributed System

Homepage of the Smart Distributed System for industrial control (variant of CAN) developed by Honeywell

Rating: 4

Buses + Boards Europe

Online magazine with a wealth of information, inc. computer boards and buses.

Rating: 4

Linux Automation

A site with links to various linux based projects for various fieldbuses, also includes PC busses (eg firewire I2C)

Rating: 4

Bus Comparison Matrix

A comparison table (pdf file) of various data bus types: Profibus, AS-interface, Interbus, Modbus and Ethernet

Rating: 4

LPT tutorial

Guide on how to interface a PC using the LPT port

Rating: 4

J1850 guide

A guide to implementing the J1850 protocol

Rating: 4

SCSI Tutorial

A tutorial on the SCSI interface by Hardwarecentral.com

Rating: 4

PC104 Tutorial

Quick tutorial on the PC104 bus

Rating: 4

Introduction to PCMCIA

A good tutorial about the PCMCIA specification including details of the various card formats available.

Rating: 4

HTServices

A site with a lot of information about industrial control methods, includes tutorials, guides, etc…

Rating: 4

Jan Axelson's books on interfacing

Information on driving USB, parallel ports, RS-232 and RS-485 serial communications

Rating: 4

USB.org

The USB specification.

Rating: 3

F T D I USB - Serial or FIFO

An interesting range of chips that allows the designer to upgrade old designs to easily interface to the USB bus

Rating: 3

ATA, ATAPI, IDE, EIDE

All you need to know about the PC's collection of mnemonic busses originally designed to handle mass storage interfacing.

Rating: 3

T10 Technical Committee

Information about I/O Interfaces, especially SCSI, SCSI-2, and SCSI-3

Rating: 3

Linux Canbus driver project

Page with details on a linux driver for connecting to the CAN bus system

Rating: 3

CAMAC specification

A detailed description on the properties and attributes of a CAMA system.

Rating: 3

Intro to CAMAC

Site describing the specifics of the CAMAC networking system

Rating: 3

The Harwardware Book

Look here for information on some of the old and current PC busses

Rating: 3

Profibus

For everything you wanted to know about Profibus (does need registering or purchasing to download documents)

Rating: 3

RS485 Tutorial

A simple tutorial guide to the RS485 protocol

Rating: 3

Busses

Links to information on Bus standards - mostly PC related

Rating: 3

LINbus with PIC chips

A Microchip application note describing using the LINbus system with PIC chips

Rating: 3

VME bus FAQ

An FAQ page for all questions relating to the world of VME busses.

Rating: 3

Echelon

Echelon - The makers of the proprietary LONWORKS network platform

Rating: 3

PCI SIG

Homepage for the PCI special Interest Group

Rating: 3

PC104.com

A site listing all the PC104 computer board vendors

Rating: 3

FireWire - The Trade Association

There must be some good links on this site --- but it’s a hard job finding them.

Rating: 2

Network & Bus Speeds

Theoretical throughputs of a number of busses

Rating: 2

EtherNet & DeviceNet

Site of the organisation that maintains these standards

Rating: 2

Busses tutorial

Nice tutorial on the different Bus systems used in PCs

Rating: 2

Computer Bus Comparison

Table comparing the features of a range of different Embedded computer busses eg STD, PC104, VME, Multibus.

Rating: 2
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